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Pneumococcal polysaccharides and their use in immunogenic polysaccharide-carrier protein conjugates

a technology of immunogenic polysaccharide and pneumococcal polysaccharide, which is applied in the field of pneumococcal polysaccharide and its use in immunogenic polysaccharide-carrier protein conjugates, can solve the problems of limited serotype coverage of prevnar® in certain regions of the world, and the complication of pneumococcal diseases can be significan

Active Publication Date: 2020-09-10
MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC
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The present invention provides purified capsular polysaccharides from Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 31 and polysaccharide-protein conjugates using these polysaccharides. The purified polysaccharides have a repeating unit with a molar ratio of O-acetyl groups to serotype 31 repeating unit of 0.0 to 3.0. The polysaccharide-protein conjugates can be used as a multivalent immunogenic composition for the prevention of pneumonia caused by this serotype. The invention also provides a method for activating the polysaccharides with a chemical reagent to produce reactive groups for conjugation to a linker or carrier protein.

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Furthermore, the complications of these diseases can be significant with some studies reporting up to 8% mortality and 25% neurologic sequelae with pneumococcal meningitis.
However, infants and young children respond poorly to unconjugated pneumococcal polysaccharides.
However, there are limitations in serotype coverage with Prevnar® in certain regions of the world and some evidence of certain emerging serotypes in the United States (for example, 19A and others).

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ture Analyses of Polysaccharides

[0147]The strategy for determining polysaccharide structure involved a multiple step process performed substantially as described in Abeygunawardana et al., Determination of the Chemical Structure of Complex Polysaccharides by Heteronuclear NMR Spectroscopy in Advances in Biophysical Chemistry 1993, Vol 3, pages 199-249, JAI Press Inc. The purified polysaccharides were examined using standard 1D and 2D NMR techniques. As polysaccharides from S. pneumoniae serotype 31 were identified as containing O-acetyl, a detailed analysis was performed on de-O-acetylated polysaccharide (O-acetate groups were removed using base hydrolysis). Finally, the polysaccharides were examined for the presence of phosphate using 31P NMR.

[0148]Assignments of the monosaccharide residues were carried out through 1H-1H COSY, double quantum filtered homonuclear COSY and total correlation spectroscopy (TOCSY). 13C chemical shifts were assigned by heteronuclear single quantum cohere...

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on of Monovalent Conjugates

[0168]Pneumococcal polysaccharide-CRM197 conjugates were prepared as described in Example 3. The required volume of bulk conjugates needed to obtain the target concentration of individual serotypes were calculated based on batch volume and concentration of individual bulk polysaccharide concentrations. Bulk conjugate of S. pneumoniae serotype 31 was combined with excipients, sterile filtered and added to APA under mixing conditions. The final concentration of S. pneumoniae serotype 31 monovalent conjugate vaccine was 4 μg / mL (w / v PnPs) with 20 mM Histidine, 150 mM NaCl, 0.2% (w / v) PS-20 and 0.250 mg / mL (w / v Al) in the form of APA.

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t Conjugate New Zealand White Rabbit Immunogenicity Study

[0169]The immunogenicity of the monovalent conjugates was evaluated in a New Zealand White Rabbit (NZWR) model. Adult New Zealand White rabbits (NZWR, n=3 / group) were intramuscularly (IM) immunized with 0.25 ml of respective monovalent conjugate vaccine on day 0 and day 14 (alternating sides). Monovalent pneumococcal vaccine was dosed at 1 μg PnPs (S. pneumoniae serotype 31 polysaccharide conjugated to CRM197) with 62.5 μg aluminum phosphate adjuvant (APA) per immunization. Sera were collected prior to study start (pre-immune) and on days 14 (post-dose 1, PD1) and 28 (post-dose 2, PD2). NZWRs were observed at least daily by trained animal care staff for any signs of illness or distress. The vaccine formulations in NZWRs were deemed to be safe and well tolerated. All animal experiments were performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of H...

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Abstract

The present invention provides capsular polysaccharides from Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes identified using NMR. The present invention further provides polysaccharide-protein conjugates in which capsular polysaccharides from one or more of these serotypes are conjugated to a carrier protein such as CRM197. Polysaccharide-protein conjugates from one or more of these serotypes may be included in multivalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines having polysaccharides from multiple additional Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes.

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FIELD OF INVENTION[0001]The present invention provides purified capsular polysaccharides from Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 31, and polysaccharide-protein conjugates having polysaccharides from this serotype. Polysaccharide-protein conjugates from this serotype may be included in multivalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Streptococcus pneumoniae, one example of an encapsulated bacterium, is a significant cause of serious disease world-wide. In 1997, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated there were 3,000 cases of pneumococcal meningitis, 50,000 cases of pneumococcal bacteremia, 7,000,000 cases of pneumococcal otitis media and 500,000 cases of pneumococcal pneumonia annually in the United States. See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1997, 46(RR-8):1-13. Furthermore, the complications of these diseases can be significant with some studies reporting up to 8% mortality and 25% neurologic ...

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IPC IPC(8): A61K47/61C08B37/00A61K47/64A61K39/09A61K39/39A61K47/02A61K47/22A61P37/04
CPCA61K47/61A61K2039/70C08B37/006A61K47/6415A61P37/04A61K47/22A61K2039/6037A61K47/646A61K39/092A61K47/02A61K2039/55505A61K39/39A61K39/385A61P31/04A61K31/715C08B37/0003C08H1/00C08L5/00A61P11/00
Inventor PORAMBO, RICHARD J.ABEYGUNAWARDANA, CHITRANANDAMUSEY, LUWY KAVUKAKOSINSKI, MICHAEL J.CUI, YADONG ADAM
Owner MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC
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